Why in 2025a figure Export Setup have been removed?

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Riccardo 2025-7-19

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评论： dpb 2026-2-11，20:04

Good morning to everyone,

I have just bought a new laptop, downloaded 2025a, opened a figure I created with 2024b and BOOM I realized (with great regret!) that the "Figure Export Setup" have been removed...

In my academic and professional experience it was an essential feature to produce figures and plots in line with the specific request (journal article, technical report, presentation etc..) and coherent throughout the work for whant concerns font size, figure dimensions and features.

I know that now there's the "uiexportdlg" https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2025a/matlab/ref/uiexportdlg.html but, in my humble opinion, there is no comparison at all. Is there a way to be able to save profiles for the export of figures as was done in the old “File” > “Export Setup” mode? And, above all, does anyone know the reason why this feature was removed? I simply can't get the point about it.

I'm not the reactionary kind of software users, but I'm seriously thinking about switching back to 2024b.

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Michael 2026-1-21，11:48

编辑：Michael 2026-1-21，11:48

I also totally agree, after quite a lot of fighting with the new features (for a task that used to take me seconds) I have reverted back to 2024b just to be able to save figures in a sensible way.

Riccardo 2026-1-22，7:28

Has anyone installed R2026? Did they bring us all a big gift restoring the export setup?

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Anita 2025-7-22

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Thanks for your questions and feedback. As of R2025a, the recommended workflow is to set figure properties, such as fonts, line properties, tick values, and renderer, either interactively or programmatically before opening the uiexportdlg dialog box. The uiexportdlg dialog options are automatically saved and restored, but it’s not possible to save and load different export styles.

This change was made to simplify the export dialog interface. You can find more details here:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html?startrelease=R2025a&endrelease=R2025a&rntext=exportsetupdlg&groupby=release&sortby=descending&searchHighlight=exportsetupdlg

We understand that this change may impact your workflow, and we value your input. Could you please share which settings you typically expect to configure through the uiexportdlg dialog? Additionally, which settings do you consider important to preserve and restore in your workflow?

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Riccardo 2025-7-26

Thanks, Anita, for your answer!

I do not consider myself an expert of typography, but here are some of the settings I found more useful in the workflow I have developed so far:

First, I found fundamental to determine the exact dimension of the picture, consistently for the destination of it. For example, a 10cm x 8cm figure is perfect for an A4/Letter document, while normally I go for 17cm x 8cm in case of wide figures. Bigger figures are used in beamers and slides.
Once set the dimension, font size can simply match the one of the documents you are writing.
Normally I like to use a font which is coherent to the one used in the document (ex. TeX Gyre Pagella / Palatino Lynotype, Times New Roman ecc.). I normally prefer serif fonts for plots even if the document uses sans-serif ones, even if probably I am breaking some "good typography" principles.
Of course, the option "expand axes to fill figure" is ticked.
Normally, I export figures in .png format, 600dpi, as I encountered some fonts incompatibility with the .eps export and also because they are easier to be edited later, if needed.

These are only some of the things I used in my usual workflow, they are mainly self-taught, and are not intended to be a guide for anyone! ! I was just wondering if I was the only one facing this problem, and I hope they may be useful in some way.

p.s. I installed r2024b too. I code with 2025a, then I save the .fig and I open it with the older release.

dpb 2025-12-2

编辑：dpb 2025-12-2

@Anita -- "This change was made to simplify the export dialog interface..."

Yes, at the loss of a great deal of functionality and increased effort to accomplish the same thing.

From the linked-to release notes--

"If you call exportsetupdlg, MATLAB issues a warning and runs the new uiexportdlg (R2025a) function instead.

To simplify the interfaces, the new dialog boxes do not include options for customizing fonts, line width, or tick values, or for setting the renderer. To control the appearance of a figure that you want to print or export, set properties of the figure and the objects in the figure before opening the dialog box."

That's just rude, indeed! This is the first time I've ever seen Mathworks actually break continued usage of a feature being deprecated on its first introduction.

As the folks here have told you, the facility to change virtually everything in the one place and more particularly, to have figure properties designed and saved for specific targets that can simpy be recalled and used is such an obvious benefit for anybody whose work involves writing for more than simply one-off throwaway applications it boggles the mind that anybody would think removing that facility was progress.

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2181610-export-setup-style-replacement#question_2181610 for yet another with similar workflow and valid reasons for maintaining the previous tool (or at least all of its features). "Simplifying" implies Mathworks knows better than their users what they should or should not be doing; the level of sophistication of users should never be underestimated. How many style guides do you suppose are in existence that MATLAB users are working under?

Anita 2026-2-11，18:54

Thanks for sharing your feedback. We’ll continue to monitor the thread and take these use cases into consideration.

dpb 2026-2-11，20:04

@Anita -- it comes to mind an alternate implementation would be to have named default properties mappings for figures/axes in a settings library. It kinda' exists now in that one could again build m-files that contain the particular combinations, but afaik there's no formal tool/interface for such.

Again, once having had the facility to change virtually everything in the one place without having to do things piecemeal, it's understandable the folks with these kinds of uses miss it.

Even when I was still "just one-man consulting" the amount of time in cleaning up the default graphics to be presentable even for single clients was generally more effort than the whole of the work to do the analysis.

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